Fair play

I played live chess tonight, and didn't do very well at first I was down a Knight and a couple of pawns. But found a good combination and got my opponent in perpetual check. We repeated the position 5 times and the site software did not in force the draw by repitition rule. I offered a draw and my opponent went silent for 30 minutes. All of a sudden he comes back with a very clever way out. I have my own computer program and if I wanted to play a computer I would play that. Since I understand that this site condones such activity I will play my chess and spend my money some place else. Bye

WOW!

sad...

Been here almost 2 years and this is the reason for leaving!?

Is it possible that they simply worked out a way themselves to get out of it? Isn't it a bit pathetic to, without any evidence, accuse someone of cheating like that?

Chess.com does not condone cheating by any means. It certainly condones thinking about your moves and coming up with a clever way of getting out of a perpetual check, though.

Having just looked at the game in question, that certainly would not require a computer to think up. The 3fold repetition thing certainly needs to be fixed, and you deserved a draw, but accusing someone of using a computer is not cool.

Goldendog, everyone has been on edge because of the color laws, people dropping left and right. This is fast becomming the greatest Chess.com controversy in history.

is fair play anything like a fairplex?

I'm a new member and have no wish to begin my association with chess.com by bitching and moaning, but. . .

Yes, there are external chess programs that people can use to come up with better moves than their own brains can produce, but this site makes cheating ridiculously easy.

A player who's more concerned with winning than with how s/he does it can simply plug the moves in his/her live or online game into chess.com's own chess-playing computer as they're made and simply follow the computer's moves.

I don't know if this actually happens, but it's so easy, and people are so easily tempted. . .

I suggest that chess.com disable use of its playing computer for anyone who is playing a game with an actual, breathing person.

That may seem draconian to some, but it would increase the chances that when playing on chess.com your opponent is a human mind, rather than a computer program.

Another solution would be to disable, not the entire chess computer, but only the switch-sides function,  That would effectively prevent a player from using the computer to help him/her battle a human opponent.